Best Music Albums

[black roadster]

What do yo think are some of the best albums of all time?

To me, a great album means every song on the album must be good.
The album should be the type of album that can be listened to and enjoyed straight through and you never really get tired of hearing them.

Greatest Hits albums don't count. Compilations don't count

Some of the best albums for me are:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - IV
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Depeche Mode - Violator
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
The Killers - Hot Fuss

[creek]

I am more old school:
Creedance - Cosmos Factory
Jimi Hendrix - Experience
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
I know I am going to catch it for these but:
Leon Redbone - Double Time.
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Off the top of my head. I know I'll kick myself later for one I forgot.

[blackzx3_13]

Not really older music but for me it's Underoath - Define the Great Line. Also Dark side of the Moon, Led Zepplin 4, Disraeli Gears by Cream, Only by the Night by Kings of Leon.

[Titus]

I'll give you one of my favorites from each decade I have been alive:

70's- The Who- Who’s Next
80's- Huey Lewis and the News- Sports
90's- Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
00's- Greenday- Americon Idiot

[Nexus Flux]

Those are some good picks, ie Jimi, Pink Floyd. Here are a cuple of my choices:
Crystal Method - Vegas
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

[Ataim]

Steely Dan Gaucho
Fleetwood Mac Rumors
Styx Peices of Eight
Rush 2112 and Exit Stage Left
Van Halen 1984
Heart Dream Boat Annie

ALong with most of the above.

[altiain]

90's- Beastie Boys- Ill Communication

This is a very good one, but I'm still partial to Paul's Boutique.

00's- Greenday- American Idiot

Have you checked out their latest (21st Century Breakdown) yet? It's pretty good.

The Crystal Method – Vegas
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral, Pretty Hate Machine
Radiohead – The Bends, OK Computer
The North Mississippi Allstars – Hill Country Revue
The Black Crowes – Warpaint
Alice in Chains – Dirt, Jar of Flies
U2 - The Joshua Tree, Zooropa, Rattle and Hum
Pink Floyd – The Wall
The Beatles – The White Album
Bowling For Soup – A Hangover You Don’t Deserve

[Sharpie]

Lenny Kravitz - like them all

[jeff_man]

your all wrong!!!
Dschinghis Khan - self titled

[CosmosMpower]

My favorites. There are very little albums that I can stand listening to all the way through

Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American
John Mayer- Continuum
Kings of Leon- Only by the Night
Jack's Mannequin- Everything in Transit
The Fray- The Fray
Anberlin- Cities

[trickyrix]

Ooooh... so many to choose from...

Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Beasties - Paul's Boutique
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Led Zeppelin - II
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger, Willie and Family Live 1978
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Travelling Wilburys - Volume I
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Def Leppard - Pyromania
AC/DC - Back in Black
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

[Titus]

Have you checked out their latest (21st Century Breakdown) yet? It's pretty good.

Not yet... I have only heard Know Your Enemy on the radio and it has yet to drive me to buy the album. Being that I have 4 other Green Day albums, I suspect I will get around to buying it one of these days.

U2 - Rattle and Hum

I can remember seeing the Rattle and Hum movie on opening night in a sold out theater. I had gone with 10 or so friends and the theater was so packed that we ended up having to break in to groups of 2 and a few of the guys had to sit by themselves. It was a decent documentary and a pretty good album, but it never reached the bar set by The Joshua Tree for me.

[altiain]

I can remember seeing the Rattle and Hum movie on opening night in a sold out theater. I had gone with 10 or so friends and the theater was so packed that we ended up having to break in to groups of 2 and a few of the guys had to sit by themselves. It was a decent documentary and a pretty good album, but it never reached the bar set by The Joshua Tree for me.

Yeah, but the Joshua Tree is such a cliche for a best album, I wanted to highlight some of their other (still very good) work. I would also add Achtung Baby to the list.

Oh, and one more:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

[Keifersmith]

Can't believe that these haven't made somebodys list (but then maybe I'm dating myself).

Van Halen - Van Halen (i.e. original album)
Boston - Boston
Frampton comes alive - Peter Frampton
Make it Big - WHAM! ... Ha! Just checking if anybody was reading this

[bmcreider]

As Marilyn Manson said, for the most part, rock is dead.

The best albums of all time are well before 1980. Absolutely nothing has come out since then that can top The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc, etc, etc...in terms of rock and roll.

[miataspeedracer]

OK, I'll add three albums not yet mentioned:

David & David--Boomtown (the best one-album wonder I can think of)
Supertramp--Breakfast in America
Elton John--Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

And one I cannot believe has been missed:

Bob Marley--Legend

[sammm]

I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned -

• The Cult - pick one, they all rock
• Neal Young - Harvest (or any of his early stuff)
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
• Live - Mental Jewelry
• Toadies - Rubberneck

[trickyrix]

Ten is easily Pearl Jam's best record - I still love it.

I'm also a huge fan of Neil Young's Harvest Moon - kind of the spiritual successor to Harvest.

I hate to admit that I've never heard the Toadies' Rubberneck all the way through. Actually, I've never heard any of the songs except "Possum Kingdom" (ahem). Pretty sad for a Dallas native like me, eh?

I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned -

• The Cult - pick one, they all rock
• Neal Young - Harvest (or any of his early stuff)
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
• Live - Mental Jewelry
• Toadies - Rubberneck

[Sharpie]

Oh, and one more:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Mother's Milk was my favorite.

[Billy Blaze]

Saxon- Power and the Glory
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
Better than Ezra-Friction Baby